My name is Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. I am born in Nantes (Brittany)
in France in 1975. The 23rd of June 2003, I obtained my
Ph.D. thesis
in software rengineering at the
École des
Mines of Nantes
(university of Nantes)
under Professor Pierre Cointe's supervision.
This thesis was financed by Object Technology
International Inc.,
a Canada-based IT company, which develops, among others,
Visual Age for Smalltalk and for Java, Visual Age Micro Edition,
and the Eclipse platform.
Since the 1st of September 2003, I have been professor in different institutions where I lead the Ptidej Team, which aims at developing theories, methods, and tools, to evaluate and to improve the quality of object-oriented programs by promoting the use of idioms, design patterns, and architectural patterns.

You can reach me at the following coordinates:

Postal address:

Civic address:

Departement of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Local: EV 3.107

Concordia University

Pavillon EV

1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West

1515 Sainte Catherine Street West

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Montréal, Québec, Canada

H3G 1M8

H3G 2W1

Tel: 1-514-848-2424 #7110

Fax: 1-514-848-2830

E-mail: yann-gael.gueheneuc <at> concordia <dot> ca

Here is a short bio. and a resume: Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc is full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering of Concordia University since 2017, where he leads the Ptidej team on evaluating and enhancing the quality of the software systems, focusing on the Internet of Things and researching new theories, methods, and tools to understand, evaluate, and improve the development, release, testing, and security of such systems. Prior, he was faculty member at Polytechnique Montréal and Université de Montréal, where he started as assistant professor in 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the NSERC Research Chair Tier II on Patterns in Mixed-language Systems. In 2013-2014, he visited KAIST, Yonsei U., and Seoul National University, in Korea, as well as the National Institute of Informatics, in Japan, during his sabbatical year. In 2010, he became IEEE Senior Member. In 2009, he obtained the NSERC Research Chair Tier II on Software Patterns and Patterns of Software. In 2003, he received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from University of Nantes, France, under Professor Pierre Cointe's supervision. His Ph.D. thesis was funded by Object Technology International, Inc. (now IBM Ottawa Labs.), where he worked in 1999 and 2000. In 1998, he graduated as engineer from École des Mines of Nantes. His research interests are program understanding and program quality, in particular through the use and the identification of recurring patterns. He was the first to use explanation-based constraint programming in the context of software engineering to identify occurrences of patterns. He is interested also in empirical software engineering; he uses eye-trackers to understand and to develop theories about program comprehension. He has published papers in international conferences and journals, including IEEE TSE, Springer EMSE, ACM/IEEE ICSE, IEEE ICSME, and IEEE SANER. He was the program co-chair and general chair of several events, including IEEE SANER'15, APSEC'14, and IEEE ICSM'13.